FORT PIERCE, Fla. — A rough start to the Elizabethtown College baseball team's 2011 Spring Break trip got corrected with a pair of wins over Northwestern (Minn.) Monday. The Blue Jays will look to carry the momentum of their two most recent wins into Wednesday's game against Misericordia.

Sunday Elizabethtown (3-4) ran into a LaRoche College team that was able to pull away for a 7-1 victory in the opener of a doubleheader. Cole Lentz started game one for the unbeaten Redhawks (3-0) allowing one run on four hits in six innings. LaRoche racked up 13 hits, with nearly half of them coming from either George Nahay or Sean Lubin. Both players were 3-for-4 with a run batted in.

Matt Reade, Andrew Gordon, Tim Rosser and Kyle Gable had the hits for the Blue Jays. Reade, who finished 1-for-3, had an RBI single to account for E-town's only run of the ballgame.

Joey Seremula, who picked up a victory in his first collegiate start at Bridgewater two Sunday's ago, took the loss for Elizabethtown with a five inning, five strikeout effort.

La Roche trailed 1-0 in the sixth inning of game two before rallying for a 2-1 win. Nahay hit an RBI double to tie the game before a Brian Herb RBI single drove him home. Jesse Bauer went the distance for the Redhawks to pick up the win, while Wayne Leonard also threw a complete game for Elizabethtown in suffering the defeat. Leonard struck out three while yielding just one walk.

Dillon Tagle's RBI single in the first inning put E-town up early, before LaRoche's sixth-inning answer. Tagle finished 1-for-3 at the dish. Herb and Anthony Girdano each went 2-for-3 for LaRoche.

Monday the sticks had much more pop as Elizabethtown swept a pair of games from Northwestern (Minn.). Reade and Anthony Heaps each had two hits to pace the Blue Jays' offense and Rob Cressman pitched a gem on the mound to pick up his first victory of 2011 in a 3-1 E-town game-one victory.

Steve Motika (RBI single in the first), Rosser (RBI single in the fifth) and Ryan Donahue (RBI single in the sixth) helped push across the Blue and Gray's three runs. Cressman threw 6.1 innings, striking out two. Greg Katz finished the job by getting the final two outs without allowing a hit or a run.

Game two was certainly E-town's most productive as it racked up a season-high 13 runs in a 13-4 victory. Motika drove in five runs on a 4-for-5 afternoon, which also included a double. The Kutztown, Pa., backstop is the first E-town player to register five RBIs in a game since Brian Kiernan did it against Ursinus (game one of a DH) on Mar. 11, 2010.

Tagle, Reade, Heaps and Gable all picked up multi-hit games in addition to Motika. All but Heaps drove in two runs apiece.

Four pitchers combined to hold the Eagles to four runs. Vaclav Hasik, a freshman from the Czech Republic, threw four innings in relief to earn his first career victory.

The Blue Jays now turn their focus toward Misericordia, a Freedom Conference member also playing down in Fort Pierce. E-town will face the Cougars in a single nine-inning game Wednesday morning beginning at 11:30.

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We apologize on slower than normal updates during the baseball team's trip to Fort Pierce. Internet access has been unavailable during the first part of the trip. Box scores from the LaRoche and Northwestern games, as well as Thursday's Ursinus games should be available by the weekend.